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Fresh Water Biology in Italy - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoFOUNDED in 1939 by private endowment, the Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia de Marchi, at Pallanza (Province Novara), is scarcely known abroad. It is situated on the north shore of Lake Maggiore ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoWE can only express, for the present, the deep regret with which we learn the death of Prof. F. M. Balfour, a regret which we are sure will be shared by all who know anything of Mr. Balf our's ...
Use of Oxygen on the Mount Everest Expedition, 1938 - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHERE were two types of oxygen apparatus ooo available to the Mount Everest Expedition of 1938. The other was a closed circuit apparatus in which pure oxygen is breathed. Now the essence of ...
Geography Of The Caucasus - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoOF the several branches of the Russian Geographical Society, the Caucasian and the East Siberian are well known for the amount of valuable geographical work they have done during the thirty ...
Insects Visiting Flowers - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE interest arising out of the writings of Darwin, Lubbock, and Hermann Müller relative to the part played by insects in their oft-recurring visits to flowers has of late years attracted much ...
Floods on the Continent - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoWHILE the peak level of the floods in the Thames Valley, reported in last week's issue of NATURE, has apparently been reached and passed, and the river, despite some additional rainfall during ...
Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE project of constructing a tunnel under the Alps —one of the favourite designs of that ardent patriot and eminent statesman, the late Count Cavour—has now been accomplished, thanks to the ...
Mr. Bentham's Anniversary Address to the Linnean Society - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoGERMANY, or rather Central Europe from the Rhine to the Carpathians and from the Baltic to the Alps, is, as to the greater part of it, a continuation of that generally uniform but gradually ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoMosley, Colvin, Noble, F.R.A.S., and Davey, were elected Fellows of the Society. The following communications were read:-(1) “On the principal Features of the Stratigraphical Distribution of ...
Colour of the Sky - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoYour correspondent “H. A. N.” will find some interesting remarks on the blueness of the sky in Professor Tyndall's “Glaciers of the Alps” (p. 257, &c.), and one or two additional notes in my ...
